The Journalist is a groundbreaking media project that provides history and context for key issues facing South African journalists. Since our launch in August 2014 we have provided a combination of first-rate storytelling with contextual detail, so often missing from contemporary stories. The site is refreshed monthly. For more than three centuries we have been involved in wars and conflict. We have lived under conditions of peace and democracy for the past twenty years only. Now we at The Journalist are shaping our roles as peace correspondents. We are committed to multimedia offerings that will challenge us to delve more deeply into the complex facets of our reality. We don’t only tell you what happened. We help you understand why. The Journalist is an independent, not for profit organisation working with the academic community and a range of credible online entities to make knowledge more accessible to the wider public. We want our stories spread far and wide. Feel free to republish our articles, but please credit our writers and authors and credit The Journalist at the top or bottom of the article complete with a hyperlink back to the site.

The Journalist is a non-profit organisation and relies on public funding.